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作者：Guo, Xue; Cheng, Zhi (Aaron); Pavlou, Paul A.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Miami
摘要：Online gig platforms have the potential to influence employment in existing industries. Popular press and academic research offer two competing predictions: First, online gig platforms may reduce the supply of incumbent workers by intensifying competition and obsoleting certain skills of workers; or, second, they may boost the supply of workers by increasing client-worker matching efficiency and creating new employment opportunities for workers. Yet, there has been limited understanding of the...
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作者：Jia, Yanli; Fang, Yulin; Jun, Ouyang
作者单位：Xiamen University; University of Hong Kong; MinNan Normal University
摘要：Online retailers often confront the problem of order cancellation due to customers' poor satisfaction with their online purchase decision, termed as choice satisfaction in this study. However, very little e-commerce literature has addressed customer choice satisfaction, and none, to our knowledge, has investigated how to design product display interfaces to achieve it. Drawing from choice closure theory and eye and vision research, we examine how product display orientation of an online shoppi...
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作者：Tunc, Murat M.; Cavusoglu, Hasan; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric)
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of British Columbia; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces enable users to mint and trade digital assets, such as collectibles, trading cards, and digital artwork. Many of these platforms accommodate resale royalties, which return a predetermined percentage of the proceeds from future resales of the digital asset to the creator. Although the adoption of resale royalties may seem beneficial for NFT creators by providing a recurring source of income, it could have unintended consequences on the sales price and the l...
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作者：Zhang, Xiaofei; Pu, Jingchuan; Lu, Yixin; Guo, Feng
作者单位：Harbin Institute of Technology; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; George Washington University; Tianjin University
摘要：Virtual teamwork has become a prevalent mode of collaboration. However, scant empirical attention has been given to the impact of virtual teamwork on individual members' performance beyond the team setting. In this paper, we fill this gap by studying virtual teams in the context of online medical consultation (OMC) platforms. Specifically, we collect data from two OMC platforms during a time period when both platforms offered individual consultations (i.e., one patient connected with one physi...
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作者：Ma, Tengteng; Hu, Yuheng; Lu, Yingda; Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：With the rapid prevalence and massive user growth of social media platforms, efficiently targeting potential customers on these platforms has grown in importance for companies. Enhancing the likelihood that a social media user will engage with brand posts holds profound implications for online marketing strategy design. However, predicting customer engagement on social media comes with its own set of challenges. In this work, we design a graph neural network model called the graph neural netwo...
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作者：Zhu, Wangsheng; Tang, Shaojie; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Large volumes of online impressions are sold daily via real-time auctions to deliver targeted advertisements to consumers. Advertisers use data to learn about user preferences and select the most appropriate ad for each user, which also helps them optimize their bids in an ad auction. Although ad exchanges may provide some user data to advertisers, they are usually limited, and advertisers often acquire data from various sources to improve targeting performance. The acquisition of such data ca...
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作者：Wang, Le; Luo, Xin (Robert); Qiu, Liangfei; Xu, Feng; Cui, Xueying
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; Xi'an Jiaotong University; University of New Mexico; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan Dearborn
摘要：The existing literature has long assumed that unethical behaviors are fueled by competition. Under this premise, rivalry and competition are often treated interchangeably. This study seeks to challenge this prevailing notion by introducing a conceptual distinction between rivalry and competition. Specifically, we explore the multifaceted relationship between rivalry and unethical behaviors in the context of online review self-injecting behaviors. Drawing on the collective regulatory focus fram...
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作者：Mayya, Raveesh; Li, Zhuoxin
作者单位：New York University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Multisided platforms often pursue growth strategies of expanding participants on one side (e.g., suppliers) and leveraging the cross-side network effect to attract participants on other sides (e.g., consumers). Whereas formal contractual agreements have traditionally been the norm for onboarding suppliers, an emerging trend involves platforms enabling consumers to interact with noncontracted suppliers via third-party enablers with both sharing profits from providing complementary services. Thi...
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作者：Lin, Xiaogang; Lu, Tao; Wang, Xin; Kou, Gang
作者单位：Guangdong University of Technology; University of Connecticut; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：On-demand service platforms connect customers with independent service providers (agents) by competitively setting service prices and wages. Mergers between on-demand service platforms have recently become prevalent, resulting in antitrust debates. A merger, although reducing competition, enables the agents on previously separate platforms to serve all the customers. In this paper, we develop a game-theoretical model to analyze the impact of a merger between two platforms. The two platforms co...
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作者：Emadikhiav, Mohsen; Day, Robert
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University; University of Connecticut
摘要：Combinatorial auctions offer several economic advantages but also face multiple technical challenges, including bid generation, the need to solve a combinatorial allocation problem, and determining reasonable prices. These challenges are even more pronounced in a combinatorial exchange, where bidders can simultaneously buy and sell combinations of goods. Motivated by truckload transportation markets, we explore new mechanisms for finding linear and anonymous Walrasian equilibrium prices in com...
